Sennacherib 095 (Q003569)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sennacherib 095 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q003569 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Kuyunjik (Nineveh) |
| Coordinates | 36.3587, 43.1519 |
English translation
By ORACC project rinap/rinap3 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] 11–44 | (As for) the (inner) wall and outer wall of Nineveh, which had not been built previously, Sennacherib, [king of] Assyria, had (them) built [an]ew and [raised] as high as mountain(s). |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BAD₃ u₃ šal-⸢ḫu⸣-u ša₂ {uru}NINA{ki} | |
| 2 | ša₂ i-na maḫ-re-e la ep-šu₂ | |
| 3 | {[m]}{d}30-PAP.MEŠ-⸢SU⸣ [MAN] KUR AŠ | |
| 4 | [eš]-⸢šiš⸣ u₂-še-piš-ma [u₂-zaq-qir] ḫur-ša₂-niš |
Sources & licences
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